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  • January 23, 2014

    Impunity, denial and requests for independent investigations in al Durrah's killing

    Rewriting history in the Israeli narrative is as simple as refusing calls for independent inquiries into the countless crimes of the occupation. Years after Muhammad al-Durrah’s death in 2000,...

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  • January 23, 2014

    B'Tselem report raises fundamental question about criminal accountability

    Despite Israeli rhetoric about precision strikes and avoidance of civilian casualties during Operation Pillar of Defence, B’Tselem’s report portrays a grim reality. According to the report, the Israeli military...

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  • January 23, 2014

    Offering practical solutions to the bloody conflict in Syria

    What can be done for a country whose death toll is close to 94,000; where 1.5 million refugees have fled the violence, executions are widespread, crimes are committed by...

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  • January 23, 2014

    The Roots of the Middle East Conflict

    During the research for my latest book Imperial Designs: War, Humiliation and the Making of History (Potomac Books – the University of Nebraska Press, 2013) I came across something...

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  • January 23, 2014

    Ze'ev Elkin and government for settlers

    Israel’s deputy foreign minister, Ze’ev Elkin, has claimed that settlements ‘have become a fact of life that must be recognised’. In an interview with Associated Press, Elkin, himself a...

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  • January 23, 2014

    A right royal Syrian mess

    In 1916 Britain and France secretly devised a plot to carve up and share out the Middle East between them. Under the authority of the Skykes-Picot Agreement it was...

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  • January 23, 2014

    Reverse Psychology: Mordechai Kedar on Jerusalem

    Mordechai Kedar wants to abolish Al-Jazeera; his motive? That the Emir of Qatar, who is the most influential person in Arabia, uses the channel as a medium to broadcast...

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  • January 23, 2014

    EU's support for Israel's arms industry bolsters occupation

    In 2012 the EU joined the ranks of Barack Obama and Henry Kissinger in being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for allegedly contributing to ‘peace’. Apart from Obama’s track...

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  • January 23, 2014

    The treacherous path to Syria's 2014 elections

    Imagine if Assad got voted out in the 2014 elections; and then he left, admitting that the elections were free and fair, that he had out stayed his welcome...

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  • January 23, 2014

    The battle for Jerusalem

    Jerusalem is one of the oldest cities in the world, and one of the holiest, containing sites sacred to Christians, Jews, and Muslims. This historic and religious significance to...

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